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The RCW 26.09.191 limitations: when the parenting plan MUST restrict
Four kinds of conduct — willful abandonment, physical/sexual/pattern-of-emotional abuse of a child, a history of acts of domestic violence, or a grievous or sexual assault — commonly REQUIRE the parenting plan to limit residential time, order sole decision making, and route disputes only to court. A domestic-violence history raises a rebuttable presumption of sole decision making, and no protected parent can be forced into face-to-face mediation.
The honesty note
The court makes the findings and the pattern forms carry them — documented-abuse cases deserve safety planning (the protection-order lanes) and counsel before any drafting conversation.
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